Walter Young (athlete)

Walter Young was a snowshoe racer and runner from Quebec, Canada.He won the 1937 Boston Marathon in a time of 2:33:20 during unseasonably hot conditions.[2] Young defeated the second place runner, John A. Kelley, by over six minutes.[3] Upon his wife's death in 1996 he relocated to Mission, British Columbia to be with his son.This biographical article relating to Canadian athletics and track and field is a stub.
Mission, British ColumbiaLong distance runningsnowshoerunnerQuebecCanadaBoston MarathonJohn A. KelleyfirefighterVerdun, QuebecJohn McDermottRonald MacDonaldLawrence BrignoliaJack CafferySammy MellorJohn LordanMichael SpringFrederick LorzTimothy FordThomas LongboatThomas MorrisseyFred CameronClarence DeMarMichael RyanFritz CarlsonJames DuffyÉdouard FabreArthur RothCarl LinderPeter TrivoulidesFrank ZunaCharles MellorJohn C. MilesJames HeniganPaul de BruynLeslie S. PawsonDave KomonenEllison BrownGérard CôtéJoe SmithStylianos KyriakidesSuh Yun-bokGösta LeanderssonHam Kee-yongShigeki TanakaMateo FloresKeizo YamadaVeikko KarvonenHideo HamamuraAntti ViskariJohn J. KelleyFranjo MihalićEino OksanenPaavo KotilaAurèle VandendriesscheMorio ShigematsuKenji KimiharaDave McKenzieAmby BurfootYoshiaki UnetaniRon HillÁlvaro MejíaOlavi SuomalainenJon AndersonNeil CusackBill RodgersJack FultzJerome DraytonToshihiko SekoAlberto SalazarGreg MeyerGeoff SmithRobert de CastellaIbrahim HusseinAbebe MekonnenGelindo BordinCosmas NdetiMoses TanuiLameck AgutaJoseph ChebetElijah LagatLee Bong-juRodgers RopRobert Kipkoech CheruiyotTimothy CherigatHailu NegussieDeriba MergaRobert Kiprono CheruiyotGeoffrey MutaiWesley KorirLelisa DesisaMeb KeflezighiLemi Berhanu HayleGeoffrey Kipkorir KiruiYuki KawauchiLawrence CheronoBenson KiprutoEvans ChebetSisay LemmaWorld Marathon MajorsBerlin MarathonChicago MarathonLondon MarathonNew York City MarathonTokyo Marathon